I don't really know where I was at that times, mostly because I don't know when that times where, honestly. Should I feel ashamed?
I wasn't criticizing the rationale for having a better wording for the status of that kind of "/debatable/" tags, but only the wording you proposed. Cheers, Sergio On 2019-02-07 14:48, Paul Allen wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:23, Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it <mailto:s...@smz.it>> > wrote: > > "/ad hoc/" (for this) signifies a solution designed for a specific > problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted > to other purposes. > > "/extempore/" (or more correctly "/ex tempore/", "from the time") means > something done without preparation or forethought, as if prompted by the > spirit of the moment. > > "/impromptu/", improvisation, has more or less the same meaning as "/ex > tempore/". > > I don't see how how the above could be seen as substitutes for "in use" > or any other OSM tags status... > > Were you here when we discussed landuse=clearing that somebody found used > (presumably > by a HOT mapper)? Used only a handful of times. It had not been proposed > and accepted, or > proposed and rejected. It was not widely used. It was something that > somebody had made up > on the spot from lack of knowledge about the correct way to deal with it. > The wiki should > probably document and deprecate it, for the benefit of anyone who finds it on > taginfo and > would otherwise assume it to be acceptable. > > But there are other de novo tags which don't have existing alternatives, > haven't been through a > proposal process and are not widely used. "In use" implies fairly wide > usage. Otherwise > anyone can invent a tag (however silly) use it once and document it in the > wiki as "in use." I > doubt that is a good way to go. Nor is leaving such things undocumented else > we're likely > to end up with dozens of alternative tags for the same thing. > > -- > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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